Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear is what kills us.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De